“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
Source: Once and Always
“Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it.”
Jacques Lacan (1901–1981) French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist
“It's okay to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth loving.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Variant: It's all right to love someone who doesn't love you back, as long as they're worth you loving them. As long as they deserve it.
Source: Clockwork Angel
Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist
Musings of Anita Blake; pp. 383-384
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)
“There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, 50 Words for Snow (2011)
Context: There's someone who's loved you forever but you don't know it.
You might feel it and just not show it.